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Meet the new team leading Facebook after the company's biggest shakeup in history

WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 11: Facebook co-founder, Chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg smiles at the conclusion of his testimony before the House Energy and Commerce Committee in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill April 11, 2018 in Washington, DC. This is the second day of testimony before Congress by Zuckerberg, 33, after it was reported that 87 million Facebook users had their personal information harvested by Cambridge Analytica, a British political consulting firm linked to the Trump campaign. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg

Facebook is going through a massive executive shakeup, reorganizing and assigning new leaders to practically all of its major product teams. Under the new structure, Facebook will be divided into three teams: family of apps, central product services, and new platforms and infrastructure, according to a report by Recode and confirmed to Business Insider by the company.

Facebook cofounder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg will remain the central leader of the company that everyone else orbits around.

Here are the execs leading the new teams at Facebook:

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Meet the new team leading Facebook after the company's biggest shakeup in history

Chris Cox, Family of Apps

Chris Cox, Family of Apps

Chris Cox will head Facebook's family of apps team, which will include Messenger, WhatsApp, Instagram, and the Facebook app itself. A close friend of Zuckerberg, Cox was the company's VP of product before the reorganization.

Mike Schroepfer, New platforms and infrastructure

Mike Schroepfer, New platforms and infrastructure

Mike Schroepfer, the company's chief technology officer, will be heading up a team tasked with thinking longterm. Facebook's efforts with blockchain, augmented and virtual reality, artificial intelligence, and engineering and data privacy will all be overseen by Schroepfer.

Javier Olivan, Central product services

Javier Olivan, Central product services

Javier Olivan, Facebook's VP of growth, will be in charge of the company's new central product services division, which will include advertising, analytics, integrity, growth, and product management.

David Marcus, Blockchain

David Marcus, Blockchain

The former leader of Messenger is leaving the team to head Facebook's new group dedicated to leveraging blockchain. This will be the social giant's first foray into the technology.

Marcus will be working under Mike Schroepfer, the company's CTO and head of the newly formed "new platforms and infrastructure" team.

Stan Chudnovsky, Messenger's current head of product, will be taking over the Messenger team.

Chris Daniels, WhatsApp

Chris Daniels, WhatsApp

Following the departure of WhatsApp's founder Jan Koum last week, the new head of WhatsApp will be Chris Daniels.

Daniels was previously head of Facebook's internet.org division, which is focused on making internet accessible to underserved communities.

Adam Mosseri, Instagram

Adam Mosseri, Instagram

The executive tasked with making Facebook's ever-so-important newsfeed is leaving the role and headed to Instagram, where he'll be VP of product.

He'll be replacing Kevin Weil, whose new role is going to be on Marcus's blockchain team.